How many investments has Venture Capital Investment Management made?

Venture Capital Investment Management has 26 tracked investments.

What stage does Venture Capital Investment Management invest at?

Venture Capital Investment Management invests at the Seed, Series A stages.

What sectors does Venture Capital Investment Management focus on?

Venture Capital Investment Management focuses on Biotech, Digital Health, Healthtech, Sector Agnostic.

Where is Venture Capital Investment Management located?

Venture Capital Investment Management is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

Who does Venture Capital Investment Management co-invest with?

Venture Capital Investment Management most often shares deals with Foresite Capital, Longwood Fund, RA Capital, among 12 tracked co-investors.

Venture Capital Investment Management

Venture capital

San Francisco · Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked

Also known as HAMBRECHT PARTNERS HOLDINGS, LLC

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Investment thesis

The firm invests in early-stage healthcare disruptors, drawing on Disruption Theory (per Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma) which holds that new entrants succeed more often by targeting lower-cost, lower-performing or non-mainstream market tiers rather than competing head-on with incumbents. It views healthcare as ripe for disruption as decision power shifts from hospitals and doctors toward consumers and self-insured employers, creating opportunities to back young companies at lower valuations. The firm uses a proprietary big-data and computing system called MESE to screen hundreds of early-stage candidates daily and proactively source top targets, rather than relying only on inbound deal flow.

Invests inBiotech Digital Health HealthtechSector AgnosticGlobal San Francisco

Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.

Stage

Seed–Series A

San Francisco, US

Founded

1972

Private fund assets

$93.9M

VC funds

Tracked investments

Team · 7 people

from the firm's website

Bill Hambrecht· Partner

Partner at Hambrecht Ventures, founder of WR Hambrecht+Co, and co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist. He has overseen nearly 700 company investments including early-stage funding and IPO transactions for Apple, Amazon, Adobe, Genentech, Google, Intel, Nvidia, Pixar, and Salesforce. He serves on the boards of Buoy Health and PatientsLikeMe.

Elizabeth Hambrecht· Managing Partner

Managing Partner at Hambrecht Ventures who has collaborated with her father Bill Hambrecht for over a decade. She previously served as CEO of Salon Media, co-founded Asiacontent.com, and worked as an equities analyst at Goldman Sachs covering emerging markets. She sits on the boards of Tasso Inc., Proov, and Golden.

Gene Yates· Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer of WR Hambrecht + Co since 2014 with over 25 years of senior finance experience in financial services. Previously served as CFO at Wells Fargo Securities and held controller and regulatory roles at Charles Schwab. Holds a BS in Accounting & Finance from USC.

John Hullar· Advisory Role

Served as Managing Partner at WRH+Co from 2013 to 2018. Held executive positions including President and CEO at Wells Fargo Securities and Managing Director of the Western Region. Previously led institutional sales and brokerage operations at Morgan Stanley and H&Q. Holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University.

Lee Ting· Advisory Role

Retired Hewlett Packard executive with over 31 years of experience, most recently as Corporate Vice President managing operations across 120+ countries. Since 2001 has been a Partner at Hambrecht Ventures Funds 1 and 2 focusing on early-stage technology and bioscience investments in the US and China. Serves on multiple boards and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.

Thomas Thurston· Partner

Manages the technical team behind the firm's proprietary MESE big-data and computing platform used to identify and analyze disruptive companies.

Veronica Bryan· Partner, Operations and Human Resources

Has held HR and operations positions at WR Hambrecht + Co since 1999, supporting both Hambrecht Capital and Hambrecht Ventures as well as portfolio companies. Previously served as AVP at Bank of America.

What they invest in

from 6 of 26 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×2Biotech ×2Digital Health ×2Healthtech ×2Medical Devices ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1AgTech ×1FoodTech ×1

HQs:United States×5

Investments · 26 tracked

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By year:2019 · 2 2014 · 13 dated

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AgTechAI & Machine LearningFoodTech

Co-investorsIngka Investments Middleland Capital

Amuse

Arcimoto

Advanced ManufacturingEugene, US

MARK DOUGLAS FROHNMAYER(Executive Officer, Director)DOUGLAS MARTIN CAMPOLI(Executive Officer)

BoardTHOMAS THURSTON(Director)JEFFERSON MOORE CURL(Director)TERRY LEON BECKER(Director)

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Co-investorsAea Investors

Calithera Biosciences inJul 2014

BiotechSouth San Francisco, US

Susan M. Molineaux(Executive Officer, Director)Jean M. George(Director)William Waddill(Executive Officer)Deepa Pakianathan(Director)Jonathan Drachman(Director)Ralph E. Christoffersen(Director)

Co-investorsLongwood Fund

Cardiometrix

Color Genomics in

BiotechBurlingame, US

Othman Laraki(Executive Officer, Director)Elad Gil(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardTaneja Hemant(Director)

Co-investorsGeneral Catalyst Khosla Ventures

Elevate

Fintech platform in China

GoodRx

Jounce Therapeutics

K Health

Medidata

Mindstrong

Mothership

Neurotrackneurotrack.com inMay 2019

Neurotrack provides remote cognitive assessment tools for clinicians to detect early cognitive decline through eye-tracking technology, enabling earlier intervention for patients at risk of Alzheimer's and cognitive conditions.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesRedwood City, US

Elli Kaplan(Co-founder & CEO)Dr. Stuart Zola(Scientific Co-founder)Dr. Elizabeth Buffalo(Scientific Co-founder)Cecelia Manzanares(Co-founder)Michael Johns(Director)

Co-investorsRethink Impact Sozo Ventures

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Salesforce

SurveySampling International

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Tassotassoinc.com in 𝕏Dec 2019

Tasso develops diagnostic testing devices and platforms for home use, enabling patients to perform health monitoring and inform clinical decisions outside traditional healthcare settings.

Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesSeattle, US

Ben Casavant(Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer)Erwin Berthier(Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer)Alan Levy(Director)

BoardElizabeth Hambrecht(Director)Paul Conley(Director)in

Co-investorsForesite Capital J2 Ventures OMX Ventures RA Capital Techstars Vertical Venture Partners

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Toms of Maine

Portfolio news

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Venture Capital Investment Management made?: Venture Capital Investment Management has 26 tracked investments.
What stage does Venture Capital Investment Management invest at?: Venture Capital Investment Management invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Venture Capital Investment Management focus on?: Venture Capital Investment Management focuses on Biotech, Digital Health, Healthtech, Sector Agnostic.
Where is Venture Capital Investment Management located?: Venture Capital Investment Management is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
Who does Venture Capital Investment Management co-invest with?: Venture Capital Investment Management most often shares deals with Foresite Capital, Longwood Fund, RA Capital, among 12 tracked co-investors.

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